Joachim Mrugowsky, defendant in the Doctors' Trial, 9 December 1946-20 August 1947 (first of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials) held at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg
Date 9 December 1946
Doetzer, Walter, Entkeimung, Entseuchung und Entwesung (disinfection, decontamination, disinfestation). Instruction booklet from a series published by the HI-WSS. 1943, 177 pages, scan of the cover. Source: archive.org
Memorial plaque, Sanatorium Schlachtensee, Spanische Allee 10, Berlin-Nikolassee, Deutschland, with references to the years when the facility served as head office of the HI-WSS
Printed notice issued by the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS at Buchenwald, 1p. 12mo., [n.d.], headed "Typhus Inoculation", sets forth dosage, side effects and contraindications from preventative typhus inoculations given to the staff and guards. Of course, prisoners had no access to this vaccine and typhus took a huge toll on their numbers. Source: Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and founder of the Ahnenerbe. Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and founder of the Ahnenerbe. Source: Wikimedia/Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S72707 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
The Nazi anthropologist Beger at the SS-Ahnenerbe expedition to Tibet in 1938, examines the rate of Aryan origin of the local population. (Photograph by Ernst Krause, Německý federální archiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0).
“Prisoners around 1944 working at a Siemens factory in KZ Bobrek, a subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp” (c) by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #95273, retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#/media/File:USHMM95273_-Siemens_factory_in_KZ_Bobrek.jpg, used Public Domain
“Siemens Factory and Ravensbrück concentration camp.” (c) by Sebastien93430, retrieved from
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“A Siemens truck being used as a Nazi public address vehicle in 1932” (c) by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R97782, retrieved from
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“Aerial photo of Ravensbrück camp” (c) by Sebastien93430, retrieved from
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Surviving female prisoners gathered when the Red Cross arrived at Ravensbrück in April 1945. The white paint camp crosses show they were prisoners, not civilians. (c) Unknown author - The picture is courtesy of the Swedish Red Cross retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensbrück_concentration_camp#/media/File:Female_prisoners_in_Ravensbrück_chalk_marks_show_selection_for_transport.jpg
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*June 1. 1907 Coventry, England
+August 8. 1996 Columbia, Maryland USA
Whittle joined the RAF in 1923 to become a pilot but was denied due to his lack of height and weight so he became an aircraft mechanic and due to his skills in model making. He was recommended to the RAF College Cranwell in 1926, which would open the route to a commision and a flying career for his graduation he wrote a thesis on the development of aircrafts in which he theorized that piston engines would be replaced by motorjets (an afterburner powered by a piston engine) he graduated second in his class in July 1928.
Whittle continued to work on his engine idea but nobody he showed it to showed much interest in the idea, the Royal Aircraft Establishment (British equivalent to NACA) had already turned away A.A. Griffith for his idea of a turboprop.
In 1929 Whittle was encouraged by his Commander to go to the Air Ministry with his concept but there was little interest and a general opinion that the engine would not work.
On the 16th of January 1930 Whittle took out a patent for jet engine (technically it was not the the first patent for a jet engine this was taken out by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 but never followed up on.
Later in 1930 a friend of Whittle arranged a meeting for Whittle with British Thompson-Houston (BTH) while they were interested the enormous cost of 60.000 pounds deterred them from building the engine
Whittle continued working for the RAF but he wasn't really able to continue his work on jet engines due to a lack of money which peaked in 1935 when he couldn't afford the 5 pound renewal fee for the patent which then expired.
In 1935-36 he was contacted by old RAF comrades and friends and they convinced him to continue his work and help him set up Power Jet Ltd. in march of 1936 in Rugby Warwickshire in rooms from BTH, Whittle was still a commissioned officer and needed special permission from the RAF to work in his own company.
Power Jets built its first engine in April 1937 the WU (Whittle Unit) but the engine was unreliable and expensive which led to financial troubles for Power Jets Ltd.
Since there was little funding the progress slowed down and Heinkel and v. Ohain overtook Whittle and Power Jets by 1938/39.
The trouble became so bad the Power Jets could barely keep operating and Whittles health started to get worse (aided by his sever smoking habit and the abuse of benzedrine and sleeping pills)
only by mid 1939 did the Air Ministry start to inject cash into Power Jets and the company was able to further develop engines which resulted in the Power Jets W.1 which ran for the first time on the 14 of December 1940 and then was placed in the Gloster E.28/39 the first british Jet which took flight for the first time on the 15 of May 1941 close too two years after the Heinkel 178 but in contrast to Heinkel and v. Ohain Whittle wasn't sidelined after his success on the contrary he became an important part of the british jet program which let to the development of further Power Jet Ltd. engines and Planes like the Gloster Meteor.
Power Jets Ltd. was merged with the RAE in 1948 and Whittle had a successful career in Great Britain and the USA receiving many Awards, both military and civilian.